alfredo_buscatti
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Surely if you feel that the pipe may well not perform to your standards, then you would be best to return it.
As regards the cob/artisan/workhorse pipes, I think cobs smoke better. Lighter, in at least some models, and fabulous draw. Artisan pipes aren't better but they are little works of art. Depending on the artisan, there are few small flaws as compared to, let's say, Peterson/Savinelli/Stanwell. That's what I read, not what I know as I own not a one artisan pipe. Still I would maintain that design and execution tends to be very well done in artisans. That I can see, even in photographs. Look at Le Nuvole pipes. Many/most push the classical form just enough to make them interesting. Some artisans push design quite a bit further and still work as functional smoking objects, which in the end, I think, pipes are meant to be; always. Jonas Rosengren's pipes on QB, are an example of this. See:
http://www.qualitybriar.com/pipes/jonas-rosengren/
It is the last pipe in his listing, the wine-colored pipe called "VOLLROS."
Artisan pipes don't smoke better but they look a lot better, especially on close inspection. (But then I would claim the taharris pipe about which I wrote an exception; but surely this could occur at any price.) To me the workhorse pipes above are boring. I can't feel good about spending $100.00 on one when I can get the same off ebay for $50.00. As estates, yes, but that has never bothered me.
But heh, who am I to talk, the king of buying cheap! But if I had the money! Oooh la la!
All of this is just my opinion. Pipes arouse a lot of feeling for those who regularly spend time smoking them. If your opinion is different, please do not feel that mine supercedes yours.
As regards the cob/artisan/workhorse pipes, I think cobs smoke better. Lighter, in at least some models, and fabulous draw. Artisan pipes aren't better but they are little works of art. Depending on the artisan, there are few small flaws as compared to, let's say, Peterson/Savinelli/Stanwell. That's what I read, not what I know as I own not a one artisan pipe. Still I would maintain that design and execution tends to be very well done in artisans. That I can see, even in photographs. Look at Le Nuvole pipes. Many/most push the classical form just enough to make them interesting. Some artisans push design quite a bit further and still work as functional smoking objects, which in the end, I think, pipes are meant to be; always. Jonas Rosengren's pipes on QB, are an example of this. See:
http://www.qualitybriar.com/pipes/jonas-rosengren/
It is the last pipe in his listing, the wine-colored pipe called "VOLLROS."
Artisan pipes don't smoke better but they look a lot better, especially on close inspection. (But then I would claim the taharris pipe about which I wrote an exception; but surely this could occur at any price.) To me the workhorse pipes above are boring. I can't feel good about spending $100.00 on one when I can get the same off ebay for $50.00. As estates, yes, but that has never bothered me.
But heh, who am I to talk, the king of buying cheap! But if I had the money! Oooh la la!
All of this is just my opinion. Pipes arouse a lot of feeling for those who regularly spend time smoking them. If your opinion is different, please do not feel that mine supercedes yours.
